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Thinking about TNS some more and its impact on downtown's centre of gravity, if you look at the development that has taken place over the last 30 years and what's proposed as of now, it does seem that we're moving from a downtown focused on P&M and radiating outward, to one where there is a box bounded by Portage, Main, Graham and Memorial that forms the true hub of downtown Winnipeg... within that small space you have the main business district (P&M with a subdistrict closer to TNS), the main entertainment district (SHED), the main shopping area (Portage Place/the Bay) and several of the big hotels (Fairmont/Radisson/Alt, with the Marlborough/Delta/Sutton Place/Holiday Inn/Humphry Inn not far away).

In some ways this is reframing the mental map of downtown from a bullseye/target model to a somewhat self-contained brick.